26 THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. - 
Insure against Serious Loss 
Through a Breakdown. 
Everybody who uses Tools or Machinery has something broken occasionally. _ The 
Farmer in the midst of his harvest loses a part of his crop because he has to wait for 
repairs ; the Manufacturer loses hundleds of pounds whilst his 1achinery lies ille, for a 
part that costs only a few shillinys to 1epair. WELDARINE IS QUITE EASY ‘ro 
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BEFORE WELDING, 
Large Set, 25/-; by post, 26/6. Small Set, 
15/-; by post, 16/6. Full instructions with 
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Weldarine 
Weld Cast 
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reer 
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dictum, and if they are biased in their 
own favour, so tov, possibly is the manager 
aforesaid, himself a foreigner. But, 
leaving this vexed question, there is no 
doubt that our poultry keepers do not 
make the best of the valuable table breeds 
we possess. We have in the Dorking the 
finest table fowl in the world, for while 
some of the Continental breeds may equal 
it in flavour, none can equal it in size. 
lt is this conbination of size and delicacy 
of flesh which makes the Dorking un- 
rivaled. We have also the Indian game, 
the olld English game, and two newer 
‘made’ breeds, the Faverolle and the 
Orpington, and last. but not least, the 
Sussex fowl in which the Dorking strain 
predominates. ; rs 
Though the Dorking is unsurpassed for 
the table, very few ure sent to market and 
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for a good reason, It is more profitable 
to cross it. The pure Dorking is a .slow 
giower and the chicks rather delicate, 
The breed, too will not flourish on heavy 
land; but where the soil is suitable 
country gentlemen who wish to have the 
best quality of poultry served at their 
tables should keep Dorkings and nothing 
else. The Faverolle now so popular is 
nothing but a crossed Dorking, and its 
origin is interesting. It comes. from 
France, from the department of Eure-et- 
Loir, the home of the Houdan. This ig 
one of the districts in France, where . 
poultry raising is an important industry. 
The poultry breeders sought to improve 
on the Houdan as a table fowl, so they 
crossed it with the Dorking. and also 
with the hght Brahma, and the Fayerolle 
was the result. It is an exceptionally 
hardy breed, and flourishes where others 
do badly. For instance, it is largely kept 
ir Ireland, and, unlike some other breeds 
has acclimatised itself there The Houden~ 
can never be a hardy breed owing to its 
crest which gets wet and retains the 
water in rainy weather, and though the 
French Houdan, bred chiefly for market, 
has not the huge crest of ourshow variety 
of that name, yet this decorative feature 
is a defect from the utility point of view. 
The Faverolle has a beard and muffs, but 
no crest. T'wo or three years back an 
interesting test was made of the relative 
merits of the Dorking and the Faverolle. 
Two lots of chickens, one of each, were 
brought up side by side. At about four 
months old, when big enough for the table 
the Fayerolles weighed more than the 
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Dorkings, but three months later the 
Dorkings had beaten them. 
The valueofa hardy quick growing 
reed like the Faverolle is obvious, It 
is.also greatly used for crossing, and, 
curiously enough, is crossed with. the 
Dorking. According to the general rule it 
is unwise to cross two breeds more or less 
related, but in practice breeders find this 
cross very satisfactory. As also they do 
that of the Dorking and Buff or White 
Orpingtons. The latter owe their table 
quality to the Dorking strain in them. 
The logic of the matter seems to be that 
the more Dorking blood in a table fowy 
the better. Another Dorking cress is the 
Dorking-Brahma, which has the reputa- 
tion of producing the largest framed 
chickens. Such breeds as the Dorking, 
Langshan, Orpington, and crossed with 
the Hondan would be an ideal fowl for 
crossing for table, but for its dark-colored 
legs, which for some unknown reason the 
market penalises, birds with white feet 
and shanks being preferred, 
‘The game cross—that is to say, the 
Indian, and the «ld English—is very 
popular with any of the breeds n med 
above. The modern or exhibition game 
should be avoided when breeding for the 
table. Possibly the most successful of any 
cross is the Indian game- Dorking. On all 
Occasions ercept the last it has won the 
cup given for the best pair of cross-bred 
fowls at Smithfield Club table poultry 
shows Farmers and other poultry keepers 
who wish to breed for market should use 
one or other of the crosses [ have indi- 
cated. There are other breeds and crosses 
which will produce good table fowls, but 
they will not fetch so much when mar- 
keted, and cost just as much to fatten,.— 
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